Parking in front of driveways

Butterfliesarepretty

I used to have this problem all the time when I had a driveway. People going to the pub would park across it all the time. when I go to my boyfriends I always park outside his house not over his or anyone's driveway - because it makes sense to not annoy people !

I live in a terraced. there is no road at the front only a narrow path. the back is cobbled and at each end of the street is a small car park. I sometimes come home to find the company's work vans parked in my space at the back of my yard, so then if I have a heavy load or shopping I have to use the car park and I dare not use any one else's space at the back of their yard. I look at it this way if you are a visitor park at either car park, leave the space for the person who LIVES THERE!

It really winds me up and sometimes I have vented off at the driver:mad: or left little notes on the windscreen saying 'someone lives here and parks here'
They know which house it is, just in case they want to argue and the note usually does the trick.

nej

On my street there isn't much on-road parking (people have driveways), and it's quite narrow. Therefore everyone parks on one side of the street (the opposite side to me), except for outside my neighbours house, as their drive isn't done (they use their garage at the back).
So, people park outside their house all the time. Fine, but opposite me is a disabled bay (a really long one - it used to have a motorhome in it) that is sometimes used by people going to the shops as the original intended users don't have a car any more. When there is a car outside my neighbours, and somebody parks in the disabled bay it makes it very difficult for people to get down the road. But the thing is, the disabled bay is really long, so they could park 5-10 feet further back and it'd be fine, but EVERYONE parks so the road is almost impassable. Why?!!?

A few nights ago I got woken up at 1am by a fire engine that couldn't get down so they just hammered on doors and sounded their siren for a while. Nobody owned up to either of the cars (I suspect they belonged to the new flats at the end of the road) so they just bumped one out of the way.

Reggie_Rebel

He kept his hand on the horn till they came out to move it.

Yep, annoys everyone, they all look out of their windows to see who's at fault

heavensbug

We used to have the same problem.

It was obvious our car was on the drive. Mainly because we have to parallel park on the front of the house.

There is a dropped kerb out front bu people would park across it.

I am a 24/7 on-call engineer so need access to the car and getting out of the drive.

We called the police non-emergency number at choice times when they were quiet (e.g. 2:00am) and they would come out and get the owner out of bed and make them move it so I could go out on my call out.

After a couple of times they started to stop. Unfortunatly new people would then park across the drive so the wife e-mailed our MP.

His reply was that a white line can be painted by the council free of charge. But only if there had been confirmed reports of problems. E.g. police reports.

Which we had having called the non-emergency number and filed the reports.

Within about 3 weeks the council turned up and 1 white line across the entrance of our drive way plus a little bit extra to allow us to be able to see out of our drive.

So, I would recommend call the police (Non-emergency number and file a report, photograph the vehicle in place for evidence.)

If a few knocks from the local constabulary do not stop it happening e-mail all the evidence to your MP.

The thing to remember is that as you have a drop kerb, blocking of said drop kerb is Illegal. Hence the police coming out when available and dealing with this "Traffic Offense".

Just remember though. This is not deemed and emergency so 999 is not an option.

Hope this helps.

Horace

I visited my parents at the weekend and the street used to be quiet with no cars parked on the road but things have changed over the last 10 years - everybody parks on the street so it is like driving down a chicane:mad: My parents seem to be the only people who actually use their garage for what it was intended (parking the car in it) plus they have a long drive that will take 2 cars and as the front of the house is also concreted then there is space for another car there too. It was a pain reversing off the drive when I wanted to leave because two people had kindly parked right outside my parents house plus the houses opposite also had cars parked outside so I was almost blind reversing off.

Where my parents live, very few people use their drives despite having long ones (her neighbour - my old schoolmate has 3 cars but can't park properly, if he did he could get two cars on the drive and put one in the garage (mind his son has a car and he doesnt drive). What do these people put in their garages so they can't fit their cars in?

Used to live in a terraced house with onstreet parking that was a pain especially if someone decided to use two spaces instead of one by parking awkwardly. I now live in a flat with some off street parking bays - car isnt safe there either because I noticed that someone has left a black scrape mark on my bumper as well as depositing silver paint all down the passenger side of my car:mad: The ratbags must have known but they drove off and never said a word - I only saw it when I used my car last weekend.

s1clark

Well today I went shopping with my mum, she parks her car at the front of my garden, not blocking the driveway. When we came back I pulled into the parking layby, until the traffic clears, (we live on a main road so I prefer to reverse up the drive) only for a white transit van to pull up and park right in front of the drive(going to the house two doors away), so hand on horn. He comes out the van and looks puzzled as to why the noise, so I had to shout that i was about to use the drive. I think it's the sheer stupidity of people that annoy me, if they don't know they are blocking drives, then they shouldn't drive.

daveboy

sillyvixen wrote: »

i have even considered the key thing (but this is criminal damage)

I have accidentally done this in public car parks when idiots have parked so close to my vehicle that I can't physically get in the drivers side.

If I was suffering this sort of problem I wouldn't hesitate to 'accidentally' rub my keys against the car.

squidge60

we have offroad parking i have lost count how many people think it fine to park in the middle so noone can get in the top spaces (including our axsxwxpe of a neighbour).who i might add would go mental if we did it.i dont get people a bit of thought is all it takes and to ask themselfs if they would like it!what i want to know is why do these muppets think its ok and if you do vent they think its ok to have a go at you like you shouldnt have said anything.i park out in the road cos i cant be dealing with it anymore .wish there was an easy answer .

heather38

shawtj2 wrote: »

I live in a terraced. there is no road at the front only a narrow path. the back is cobbled and at each end of the street is a small car park. I sometimes come home to find the company's work vans parked in my space at the back of my yard, so then if I have a heavy load or shopping I have to use the car park and I dare not use any one else's space at the back of their yard. I look at it this way if you are a visitor park at either car park, leave the space for the person who LIVES THERE!

You live in the same town as me, and your road is exactly the same as mine.(infact it sounds like the same street!) i live 2 houses up from one of the car parks at the end and when it's full in the day from the people in the factory using it i often come home from shopping to find people parked out side my house, my old neighbours didn't have a car so not so much of a problem, but the new people do so i can't park there now.

smileypigface

My OH found himself blocked on our drive a little while ago - it is a dropped kerb. There had been two other cars parked on the road, one each side of the drive, so the person who parked there had to parallel park into the spot - our drive isn't very long and our car is a big dark grey 7-seater so it's not exactly small and is right up to the boundary of our property.

He sat with his hand on the horn (woke up the students next door at the crack of 11am!!), knocked all the neighbours doors and finally rang the local police station who sent a policeman out who tried to phone the owner from the registration details and when he got no answer he called the lift and shift lorry in .... within an hour and a half!

He was only sorry he wasn't at home to see the owner's face when they returned to get in their car to find an empty space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!